# Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Observability & Analytics) – Platform Infra

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Canada
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $138,300-$185,900 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale , unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Observability & Analytics) role sits on the observability side of the Platform Observability & Analytics team. This team runs the infrastructure that tells Elastic the truth about its own platform. The observability clusters show Cloud engineers how production is behaving right now, and the analytics pipelines show the business how the platform and the products get used over time.

**Responsibilities**

- Own end-to-end delivery of moderate-to-high complexity projects on the team’s roadmap, with minimal day-to-day direction.

- Operate and harden shared Elastic Cloud infrastructure (ECH, ECE, and ECK) as Infrastructure as Code – writing and reviewing the Terraform, Python, and Go that other engineers depend on.

- Carry a 24/7 on-call rotation: respond to incidents, drive them to resolution, and write clear RCAs/postmortems that lead to lasting fixes rather than repeat pages.

- Review others’ code and designs, and be a trusted second set of eyes on production changes to critical infrastructure.

- Mentor less experienced engineers, and proactively raise risks, ideas, and improvements in team discussions.

- Improve runbooks, documentation, and operational processes so the on-call load gets lighter over time.

**Requirements**

- 5+ years of SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience.

- Proficiency with Terraform; comfortable owning large, multi-workspace configurations in a team setting.

- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python; comfort with Go is a plus.

- Deep Linux systems knowledge and experience operating containerized workloads in production.

- Experience carrying a 24/7 on-call rotation, resolving incidents under pressure, and writing RCAs that hold up under review.

- A track record of consistently delivering end-to-end projects of moderate-to-high complexity with minimal oversight, and being a valuable code/design reviewer for your team.

- Comfort thinking about the security implications of the infrastructure you build, not just its reliability – you don’t need to be a security specialist, but you default to a security-conscious mindset.

- A pattern of mentoring less experienced engineers and speaking up with ideas and concerns in team discussions.

- Clear written and verbal communication – you document what you build and can explain it to both engineers and non-engineers.

- Comfort working across time zones, in both real-time and asynchronous contexts.

**Benefits**

- Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.

- Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.

- Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.

- Generous number of vacation days each year.

- Increase your impact – we match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.

- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.

- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

**Compensation**

The typical starting salary range for this role is: $138,300-$185,900 CAD

## Skills

### Required
- Terraform
- Python
- Go
- Linux
- containerized workloads
- SRE
- platform engineering
- infrastructure engineering

### Nice to have
- Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, Kibana)
- GitOps-style deployment tooling (ArgoCD, Helm)
- policy-as-code frameworks (e.g., Kyverno)
- secrets management (Vault)
- access-control/bastion tooling (Teleport)
- configuration management tools (e.g., Puppet, Ansible)

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